Comment by oshams

1 year ago

BTW, if you ask for an open source repo in the comments to be processed by our system, we'll do it for free!

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billmalarky  1 year ago

Can you share some basic insight into how your system processes an open source repo to generate a wiki with a hierarchy and structure that maps to the same or similar hierarchy and structure of the codebase?

I can understand the value of marrying that wiki to the codebase and how that would help LLM's better "understand" the codebase.

What I'm lost on is how you can auto-generate that wiki in the first place (in a high quality way). I presume it's not perfect, but a very interesting problem space and would love to hear what you've learned and what you are trying to accomplish this feat!

Thanks for posting btw, this HN comments section has been INCREDIBLE.

  • oshams  1 year ago

    Thanks! It's a multi stage process where we summarize the code and structure it into articles. We also do some self verification, for example checking for dead links.

    • billmalarky  1 year ago

      Do you build a syntax tree of the code, then loop the tree to auto-write an article for each node (or the larger or more material nodes) and then also reference the tree to pull in related nodes/pieces/modules/whatnot of the codebase when auto-writing a documentation article for each node?

      This is fascinating thank you

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